chewing

英 [ˈtʃuːɪŋ]

美 [ˈtʃuːɪŋ]

v.  咀嚼; 嚼碎; (因为紧张等)咬住，不停地啃; (为尝味道)不停地咀嚼
chew的现在分词

现在分词：chewing　复数：chewings　

医学

BNC.19561 / COCA.15873

柯林斯词典

• VERB 咀嚼;嚼(碎)
  When youchewfood, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow.
  1. Be certain to eat slowly and chew your food extremely well...
     一定要慢慢吃，要细细咀嚼。
  2. Daniel leaned back on the sofa, still chewing on his apple.
     丹尼尔倚在沙发上，嘴里还在嚼着苹果。
  3. ...the sound of his mother chewing and swallowing.
     他妈妈咀嚼、吞咽的声音
• VERB 嚼(口香糖、烟草)
  If youchewgum or tobacco, you keep biting it and moving it around your mouth to taste the flavour of it. You do not swallow it.
  1. One girl was chewing gum...
     一个女孩在嚼口香糖。
  2. He chews tobacco constantly.
     他不停地嚼烟草。
• VERB (因为紧张)咬(嘴唇、指甲)
  If youchewyour lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous.
  1. He chewed his lower lip nervously.
     他紧张地咬着下嘴唇。
• VERB (人或动物)咬，啃
  If a person or animalchewsan object, they bite it with their teeth.
  1. They pause and chew their pencils...
     他们停了下来，咬着铅笔。
  2. One owner left his pet under the stairs where the animal chewed through electric cables.
     有个人把宠物放在楼梯下面，结果它在那儿把电线咬断了。
• N-COUNT 口嚼糖
  Achewis a sweet that you have to chew very hard before it becomes soft.
  1. ...a selection of penny chews.
     各式各样可供选择的便宜口嚼糖
• PHRASE 试图承担力不能及的事
  If you say that someonehas bitten off more thantheycan chew, you mean that they are trying to do something which is too difficult for them.
  1. Micky is used to handling dodgy deals but this time fears he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
     米基本来是善于处理棘手交易的，可是这回他可能会力有不逮。
• PHR-RECIP 闲聊;闲扯
  If peoplechew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
  1. We'd been lounging around, chewing the fat for a couple of hours.
     我们东游西逛，瞎扯了两三个钟头。
• tochew the cud→ see:cud

英英释义

noun

• biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
  Synonym:chewmasticationmanduction

双语例句

• Daniel leaned back on the sofa, still chewing on his apple.
  丹尼尔倚在沙发上，嘴里还在嚼着苹果。
• They stopped up leaks with chewing gum.
  他们用口香糖粘住了漏缝。
• However, raw fruit and vegetables, and meat, demand more chewing.
  然而，新鲜水果、蔬菜和肉类需要更多的咀嚼。
• He sat by the pond chewing the cud of the criticisms coming from his manager.
  他坐在池塘旁边，仔细玩味着经理对他的批评。
• I've tried everything from herbal cigarettes to chewing gum
  中草药香烟、口香糖之类的我统统都试过了。
• He spent much time collecting facts and chewing them over before coming to a conclusion.
  为了得出结论，他花了很多时间收集事实并对这些事实进行仔细考虑。
• He covertly removed the chewing gum from my hem.
  他偷偷地拿掉了粘在我衣摆上的口香糖。
• Half the pictures I've seen her in, she's chewing gum.
  我已经看了她一半的照片，都在嚼口香糖。
• We'd been lounging around, chewing the fat for a couple of hours.
  我们东游西逛，瞎扯了两三个钟头。
• Let's stop chewing the fat and get down to work.
  让我们停止聊天儿，着手工作吧。